Me, one year ago:

#Parents, THINK before burying your kids under student #debt:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/innovation-scams-education-myths

Today:

"Lifetime earnings simply can’t keep up with the cost of degrees"

https://fortune.com/2024/05/14/college-majors-lifetime-earnings-trade-school-return-on-investment/

YOUR civil rights and the quality of YOUR life depend every year more on how software (= #robots, #automation, #AI, #Iot ...) is used AROUND you.

To know why, and the many ways software should be used better, subscribe to my newsletter: https://mfioretti.substack.com

@matty7w very good point. That's surely a factor. Indeed, the few american Catholics I met personally all are in the "having" category, and with one exception, surely vote Republican

VERY interesting difference between "White #Catholics" and "Hispanic Catholics" (a distinction only Americans would make, btw)

Does anybody have explanations? Thoughts?
Thx

(SOURCE: https://zenit.org/2024/05/14/9-interesting-and-curious-facts-you-may-not-have-known-about-u-s-catholics/)

RIght now, the "5000 words every European should know" include Thermodynamics, #Bulgaria, Sagrada Familia, Hitler and Algorithms.

What's missing? Please tell me. See how and why here: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/5000-words-for-europe-again

Still too few entries about #ukraine #russia #Latvia #Estonia #Lithuania and all of Eastern #Europe in general in this list of "5000 concepts every European should know".

I cannot know which ones they should be. Please YOU submit them, & pls RT:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/5000-words-for-europe-again

@EileenKCarpenter to complete my previous answer:

a BIG part of the problem is just that, the totally unfounded equation "internet & communication = smartphone and nothing else"

I discussed this issue here:
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children

@EileenKCarpenter I wouldn't mind if payphones came back, but please note that they are not needed to for the objectively necessary service you mention. Parents with that need can give their kids ordinary cellphones. It's only smartphones = unrestrictable, 24/7 access to the whole internet that are the problem

Here are some of the last suggestions for my book project about "5K concepts that EVERY EUROPEAN should know":

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/5000-words-for-europe-again

Do you agree?

Pls read the proposal, let me know, and share it as much as you can. It would be wonderful to reach 5K entries before #EU2024 day!

via @JonHaidt :
"as much as we need to change the norm around handing out smartphones to children..."
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/keeping-our-kids-safe-online

Right. Parents need to turn the social pressure upside down, to this:
https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children

"CEO claims data centers are going to start running out of power within 18-24 months", reports @KarlBode

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/10/ceo-ai-power-drain-could-cause-data-centers-to-run-out-of-power-within-two-years/

IF WE ARE LUCKY, I ADD.

Something like that may be the only shock big enough to reset the madness, and start using #AI sensibly. See these posts of mine at https://mfioretti.substack.com/archive

I want 5000 words for #Europe, all in one place.

And wherever you live, whatever you think of the #EU, I want one of those words from YOU:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/5000-words-for-europe-again

"Protest, now, is what the West does"

so true, whatever one thinks of the rest of the post...

https://paulkingsnorth.substack.com/p/die-before-you-die

Q: "How can #Europe emulate #SiliconValley’s #startup success?"

Answer: the question is NOT "how". The question is "why do it, instead of doing something better?"

Today:

"If #AI Wrecks #Democracy, We May Never Know..."

https://www.itprotoday.com/artificial-intelligence/if-ai-wrecks-democracy-we-may-never-know

and I said what would happen, and how to fix it, years ago:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-usa2024-and-9-suggestions

https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/04/what-if-we-just-outlawed-instantness-in-social-networks/